Timeflies and Walk Off The Earth
Sound Co
Stewart Independent Production LLC
Venue
Merrilat Sport & Fitness Center
Adrian MI
The Time of the (Festival) Season
Okay, I don’t quite get it. It’s April. Up here in San Francisco, it’s pouring rain. Yet the festival season starts in just a couple weeks, with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicking off for two fun (and work) packed weekends from April 11 to 13 and 18 to 20. It might be springtime, but I guess the chances of warm weather are better in the desert/Coachella Valley town of Indio, Calif. than up here in the fog belt.
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Jason Mraz and Raining Jane
Seemingly having far more fun than should be legally allowable, Jason Mraz spent March stopping at 1,500 to 3,000 seat rooms along the West Coast and performing with indie folk/rock quartet Raining Jane. Prior to this foray, the two musical parties have been collaborating here and there since 2007, and they are now about to push a full studio album out the door.
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Milestones: 30 Years of Hosa Technology
We spend our days working in a technology-driven and fairly young industry, where if a startup company can make it through its first five or ten years, that’s considered an accomplishment. So if a company reaches the 30-year mark — nearly a third of a century, as in the case of Hosa Technology — that accomplishment is quite impressive indeed.
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Loudspeaker Horns – A Crash Course
Horns of various sizes and shapes have been with us since the formative days of professional sound reinforcement. Whether stacked on top of a bass bin in the early days, or carefully integrated into the injection molded housing of a powered loudspeaker today, horns are here to stay.
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High Altitude Audio: Sundance Film Festival Gets a Louder Soundtrack
Live sound is all about moving lots of air, and that was a particular challenge for the music shows at the Sundance Film Festival, which took place in Park City, UT, over 11 days in January. The thin air in Park City — an even 7,000 feet above sea level — challenges crewmembers at load-in as muscles beg for oxygen. Further up the road, a series of private shows held for guests at the Hotel Montage borders on hypoxia at 8,300 feet.
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Audio-Technica BP894 MicroSet Headworn Mic
Over the years, headworn microphones have become significantly more improved, with better performance from smaller, near-invisible packages. So last year, when Audio-Technica debuted its BP894 MicroSet — a design that takes a completely new approach to headworn microphones, I was intrigued about its performance — and sound.
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